At the Threshold of an Era (Chinese: ???) was a Hong Kong epic drama series broadcast by TVB Jade Channel from October 11, 1999 to December 18, 1999 and March 13, 2000 to May 26, 2000, and was extensively promoted by TVB as its cross-milliennium, one-hundred-episode-long epic. The series composed of two parts, with a gap in between the airing.The entire series took place in a continuing flashback, with one of the main characters pondering the trials and tribulations he went through while riding on a train in the "green city" he developed.The drama documents the rise and fall of three entrepreneurs, who founded Lik Tien Century Construction (????) together to achieve the ultimate goal of developing a pollution-free city in Hong Kong. Vendetta and love serves as strong subplots throughout the series, with the vendetta between two families being the most prominent.The stories covered a span of 20 years, from 1990 to 2010, and featured many technologies that came to age during this time, including the nascent internet, and a bulkier tamaguchi virtual pet device (shown as a device similar to Game Boy in the series), which was developed by one of the entrepreneurs before his entry into construction.

In 1999, an enormous meteor crashed onto Earth carrying extraterrestrial creatures known as Worms within it. These creatures took on the identities of real humans and then killed them. In order to counter this new threat, ZECT was formed, who...

'Gu Am Heo Joon' is a remake of the 1999 drama Huh Joon about the dramatic life of the writer of the eastern medicine manual (Dong Eui Bo Gam), Heo Joon. It depicts the life story about a commoner who rose up the ranks to become a royal court physician.

Gemini (also known as Sôseiji) is a 1999 horror film by Shinya Tsukamoto, loosely based on an Edogawa Ranpo story, which pursues his theme of the brutally physical and animalistic side of human beings rearing its ugly head underneath a civilized veneer, present in previous films like Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989) and Tokyo Fist (1995), in what is a new territory for Tsukamoto—a story set in the late Meiji era (1868–1912) with no stop-motion photography and

Ten-year-old fifth-graders Akira and Koichi are best friends who always seem to get into trouble. When the new term starts, they are placed in different classes. Initially, this is just a minor obstacle to their continued friendship, but then their relationship begins to change. Akira befriends the fatherless Shun, while Koichi hangs out with the newly-transferred and mischievous Samajima. One day, when Akira declines an invitation to attend Shun's birthday party in favour of spending time with Koichi, tragedy strikes as Shun dies along with his mentally ill mother. Koichi and Samajima become engrossed with committing petty crimes.